Ellen Levine [https://www.hearst.com/about/bios/ellen-levine],
former Editorial Director at Hearst Magazines, will lead a
wide-ranging conversation with pioneering mental health researchers
Dolores Malaspina, M.D [http://www.med.nyu.edu/biosketch/malasd01].
and Myrna Weissman, Ph.D
[https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/people/our-faculty/mmw3#field_biography].,
at the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation’s
[http://www.bbrfoundation.org/] _Women Breaking the Silence About
Mental Illness_ Luncheon Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 11 a.m. reception;
12 p.m. to 2 p.m. luncheon at the Metropolitan Club, One East 60th
Street, Manhattan. The LUNCHEON WILL RAISE MONEY TO HELP THE
FOUNDATION—the top non-governmental funder of MENTAL HEALTH
RESEARCH—ACCOMPLISH ITS MISSION TO ALLEVIATE THE SUFFERING CAUSED BY
MENTAL ILLNESS BY FUNDING RESEARCH THAT WILL LEAD TO BETTER DIAGNOSIS
AND TREATMENT. The LUNCHEON COMMITTEE IS CO-chaired by Suzanne Golden,
Carole Mallement and Barbara Streicker. Tickets are $300. To make a
reservation, email rlaquercia@bbrfoundation.org; or call 646-681-4878.
For more information about BBRF, visit www.bbrfoundation.org
[http://www.bbrfoundation.org/]
Dr. Malaspina, the Anita & Joseph Steckler Professor of Psychiatry and
Child Psychiatry, former chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at
NYU Langone Medical Center_, _and host of the _Psychiatry Show_ on
_Sirius XM’s Doctor Radio_, has spent her career working to
understand schizophrenia, which afflicts her younger sister. Her
groundbreaking work found that a quarter of all people living with
schizophrenia may owe their symptoms to spontaneous mutations in
paternal sperm, which are more likely to occur in older fathers. Still
a practicing clinician, Dr. Malaspina has received two Young
Investigator Grants, as well as Independent and Distinguished
Investigator Grants from the Foundation.
Dr. Weissman, the Diane Goldman Kemper Family Professor of
Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public
HEALTH, and Chief of the Division of Epidemiology at New York State
Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI), specializes in understanding rates and
risks of mood and anxiety disorders, and is working to bring
psychiatric epidemiology closer to translational studies in
neuroscience and genetics. For more than 30 years, she has directed a
three-generation study of families at risk for depression. She also
directs a study to determine the impact of maternal remission from
depression on children and was one of the developers of Interpersonal
Psychotherapy, an evidence-based treatment for depression. Dr.
Weissman is a member of the FOUNDATION’s Scientific Council
[https://bbrfoundation.org/our-scientific-council], a three time
Distinguished Investigator Grantee, and a member of the National
Academy of Sciences.
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